exploiting information: getting the most from the ou library - wendy mears and nicola dowson
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library - Wendy Mears and Nicola Dowson](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062705/5565bf52d8b42a48268b5008/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library
Nicola Dowson and Wendy Mears
21 March 2012
![Page 2: Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library - Wendy Mears and Nicola Dowson](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062705/5565bf52d8b42a48268b5008/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Our session will cover..
• Literature review and sources of help • Keeping up to date• Bibliographic management tools
![Page 3: Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library - Wendy Mears and Nicola Dowson](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062705/5565bf52d8b42a48268b5008/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
A good literature review will..• clarify your understanding of the field • explain the rationale for your research • place your research within a broader context • evaluate the results of previous research • define key concepts and ideas • identify research in related areas that are generalisable
or transferable to your topic • identify relevant methodological issues.• (taken from Uni New England library website:• http://www.une.edu.au/library/eskillsplus/literature/litreview.php
![Page 4: Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library - Wendy Mears and Nicola Dowson](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062705/5565bf52d8b42a48268b5008/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Lit review - doing it well
• Comprehensive searching• Citation searching• Good record keeping
![Page 5: Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library - Wendy Mears and Nicola Dowson](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062705/5565bf52d8b42a48268b5008/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Help and training resources • Information skills for researchers on Library website • Training sessions, online or F2F• Subject specialists within the Library• Immediate help via Library helpdesk
![Page 6: Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library - Wendy Mears and Nicola Dowson](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062705/5565bf52d8b42a48268b5008/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Keeping up to date
• Introducing you to ways of keeping up-to-date using electronic tools
![Page 7: Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library - Wendy Mears and Nicola Dowson](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062705/5565bf52d8b42a48268b5008/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Email alerts, RSS feeds and tracking engines allow you to:
• Set up, save and re-run your searches against latest additions to databases
• Set up profiles to receive automatically the contents pages of journal issues
• Receive notification of articles recently published and added to a database
• Keep up to date with breaking news• Discover new resources in your field
![Page 8: Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library - Wendy Mears and Nicola Dowson](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062705/5565bf52d8b42a48268b5008/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Email alerting services• Two types
–Journal table of contents(TOC) based
–Search based: keywords, authors, subject
• Examples
–Zetoc Alert
–TicTOCs: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk
–IEEE Explore
![Page 9: Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library - Wendy Mears and Nicola Dowson](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062705/5565bf52d8b42a48268b5008/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Zetoc• Zetoc provides access to the
British Libraries Electronic Table
of Contents of around 20,000
current journals and around 16,000
conference proceedings published
per year
![Page 10: Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library - Wendy Mears and Nicola Dowson](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062705/5565bf52d8b42a48268b5008/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Other updating tools (1) • Setting up RSS feeds
–iGoogle: http://.google.com/ig
–Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com/
–Netvibes: http://www.netvibes.com
• Social networking tools
–ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net
![Page 11: Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library - Wendy Mears and Nicola Dowson](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062705/5565bf52d8b42a48268b5008/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Other updating tools (2)• Social bookmarking
–Diigo: http://www.diigo.com
• Social citation sharing
–Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com
• Tracking website changes
–TrackEngine: http:www.trackengine.com/servlets/com.nexlabs.trackengine.ui.Login
![Page 12: Exploiting information: getting the most from the OU Library - Wendy Mears and Nicola Dowson](https://reader035.vdocuments.net/reader035/viewer/2022062705/5565bf52d8b42a48268b5008/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Bibliographic management tools